منابع مشابه
Private Medical Care Expenditures and Voluntary Health Insurance, 1948–60
PRIVATE expenditures for medical care in the United St,ates amounted in 1060 to $10.6 billion. This total was nearly $1.6 billion more than that spent in 1059. The data presented here for 1060 represent a continuation of a series of annual estimates made by the Division of Program Research and published each year, generally in the December issue of the BULLETIN. Slight adjustments have been mad...
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THE NATION’S private consumer expenditures for medical care amounted in 1961 to $21.1 billion$1.3 billion or approximately 7 percent more than the amount spent in 1960. Direct out-of-pocket payments by consumers amounted to $14.4 billion or 68 percent of the total. The balance of $6.7 billion, representing payments for health insurance, was $832 million or 14 percent greater than the amount spe...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
سال: 1964
ISSN: 0002-9572
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.54.1.172-a